Project Title: Can you Survive? Grade Level: 4 Name: Wendy Higgins Project Idea
Students take on the role of a sailor who has fallen overboard during a storm and come ashore in late 1400s/early 1500s in what is now coastal North Carolina. Using an online journal, they describe the habitat that supports the people and animals they find in this area and determine what adaptations lead to survival. They must determine any adaptations they may have to exhibit in order to survive as well as how they may affect the environment that they have fallen into.
Driving Question:
How do people and animals survive a change in habitat?
Content: Science 4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.1.3 Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).
4.L.1.4 Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
Social Studies 4.H.1 Analyze the chronology of key historical events in North Carolina history. 4.h.1.1 Summarize the change in cultures, everyday life and status of indigenous American Indian groups in North Carolina before and after European exploration.
English Language Arts Key Ideas and Details: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Writing Standards: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. a. Orient the reader by establishing a situationand introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. b. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. Major Student Products:
Online journal, oral presentation to Queen Isabella and her court about the experience in the new world
Documents:
Can You Survive? Project Teaching and Learning Guide:
Grade Level: 4
Name: Wendy Higgins
Project Idea
Students take on the role of a sailor who has fallen overboard during a storm and come ashore in late 1400s/early 1500s in what is now coastal North Carolina. Using an online journal, they describe the habitat that supports the people and animals they find in this area and determine what adaptations lead to survival. They must determine any adaptations they may have to exhibit in order to survive as well as how they may affect the environment that they have fallen into.
Driving Question:
How do people and animals survive a change in habitat?
Content:
Science
4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.1.3 Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).
4.L.1.4 Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
Social Studies
4.H.1 Analyze the chronology of key historical events in North Carolina history.
4.h.1.1 Summarize the change in cultures, everyday life and status of indigenous American Indian groups in North Carolina before and after European exploration.
English Language Arts
Key Ideas and Details: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Writing Standards: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Orient the reader by establishing a situationand introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that
unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Major Student Products:
Online journal, oral presentation to Queen Isabella and her court about the experience in the new world
Documents:
Can You Survive? Project Teaching and Learning Guide:
Can You Survive? Project Overview:
Can You Survive? Project Calendar: